Tudor Rhys Etchells (b.1994 Cardiff, Wales) is a photographic artist, researcher and educator.

He was previously a human rights lawyer for clients in the immigration system.

His work attempts to reveal systems that remain out of sight but that are imagined in the social conscience. For Etchells, the photographic medium, with its own cumbersome structures of viewing and representing, can be used to deconstruct processes and norms of wider social structures. In particular, the role the image plays in perpetuating norms of borders and the bureaucracy that upholds it. His work as a human rights lawyer is a point of departure for his photographic research into systems of social control and the role of visual evidence within them.

He graduated with a LLB in English and Spanish Law from IE University, Spain, and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2016.

He recently graduated from MA in Documentary Photography at The University of South Wales, home to The European Centre for Documentary Research.

He is an associate artist at BayArt, Cardiff.

Grants/Awards:

2022 - Reginald Salsbury Award

2022 - PEP New Talent 2022

2017 - Peter Duffy Scholarship for internship at the European Court of Human Rights

2010 - United World College – Great Britain Committee Scholarship

Solo Exhibitions:

2021 - Seeking the Mundane - CURAD, Cardiff

Group Exhibitions

2024 - Here, Now - the wholefood studio - BayArt, Cardiff

2023 - Deslocamentos - Bienal ‘23 Fotografia de Porto - P.Artes, Porto

2022 - PEP New Talent 2022 - 254Forest, Brussels

2018 - Are You Lost Yet? - The Abacus, Cardiff